In the 2023/24 academic there were 32,149 schools in the United Kingdom, 601 schools fewer than there were in the 2010/11 academic year. Throughout most of this period, there has been a steady decline in the number of schools, with a slight uptick noticeable after 2019/20, when there were just 32,028 schools. Concrete crisis at UK schools in 2023 Due to its affordability, many schools built in the UK from the 1950s to the 1990s used reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC). Although not inherently unsafe, RAAC is a less durable version of standard concrete, and has a typically shorter lifespan. The issue of RAAC in schools suddenly became more urgent in 2018, when a school roof collapsed, confirming fears that RAAC structures weakened over time. Just before schools returned for the 2023/24 academic year, 147 schools in England were confirmed as having issues with RAAC, with 19 of these forced to delay the start of the school year, and a further four opting for fully remote learning. Number of UK pupils falls in 2023/24 After reaching a peak of 10.7 million in the 2022/23 academic year, the number of school pupils in the UK fell to 10.63 million in the following academic year. In the same year, the number of full-time teachers in the UK reached a high of 643,491, up from just 621,718 in the 2017/18 academic year. Although the pupil to teacher ratio at UK schools has overall been quite stable in recent years, there was a surge in the pupil to teacher ratio at nursery schools between 2012/13 and 2018/19, rising from 17.5 teachers per pupil, to 22.9

In 2023/24 there were 20,739 primary schools in the United Kingdom, a slight decrease when compared with the previous academic year. Since 2010/11 the overall number of primary schools in the UK has fallen by approximately 542 schools.

Information on all schools in England including local authority maintained schools, academies, free schools, studio schools, university technical colleges and independent schools. The information includes address, school type and phone number. This information comes from EduBase, DfE’s register of schools, and will be updated every month. http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml

In the United Kingdom, there were 4,181 secondary schools in the 2023/24 academic year compared with 4,121 in 2010/11. In the provided time period, the number of secondary schools in the UK has fluctuated between a low of 4,072 schools in 2011/12 and a high of 4,204 schools in 2021/22.

This method returns the closest schools based on the specified criteria.

The dataset comprises multiple source datasets published by the Department for Education, and it is updated as soon as relevant datasets become available.

United Kingdom UK: School Enrollment: Secondary: Private: % of Total Secondary data was reported at 70.828 % in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 69.494 % for 2014. United Kingdom UK: School Enrollment: Secondary: Private: % of Total Secondary data is updated yearly, averaging 27.445 % from Dec 1999 (Median) to 2015, with 17 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 70.828 % in 2015 and a record low of 24.869 % in 2007. United Kingdom UK: School Enrollment: Secondary: Private: % of Total Secondary data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.World Bank.WDI: Education Statistics. Private enrollment refers to pupils or students enrolled in institutions that are not operated by a public authority but controlled and managed, whether for profit or not, by a private body such as a nongovernmental organization, religious body, special interest group, foundation or business enterprise.; ; UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Weighted average; Each economy is classified based on the classification of World Bank Group's fiscal year 2018 (July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018).

Data presented here is an extract of data published by The Scottish Government in March 2014. The data shows School contact details as at September 2013 including school roll, FTE teacher numbers, ethnic group proportions and denomination. The data also includes the proportion of pupils who live in the 20% most deprived data-zones in Scotland. The address and contact details have been sourced from an Openings and Closings exercise that took place in June 2013. The data has been filtered to provide contact details for schools in the Glasgow local authority area only. For information on schools that have opened or closed since January 2014 please email school.stats@scotland.gsi.gov.uk The data has been geocoded and coordinates have been added in WGS84 and OSGB36 projection formats. Contains Ordnance Survey data (c) Crown Copyright 2014. Licence: None school-contact-location-details.zip - https://dataservices.open.glasgow.gov.uk/Download/Organisation/728522f0-86da-48c6-8f75-1649934eb8a4/Dataset/890346e1-d756-4fb8-b824-e48d3cc0924e/File/c8183da4-4c16-4d7b-84e8-421e1dbca76f/Version/3fb8f7d2-dc55-4cfd-9347-5362893aca9d schoolcontactdetails.geojson - https://dataservices.open.glasgow.gov.uk/Download/Organisation/728522f0-86da-48c6-8f75-1649934eb8a4/Dataset/890346e1-d756-4fb8-b824-e48d3cc0924e/File/9e165e2b-43be-4ae1-a78f-bdebab9596f0/Version/5bd4aca7-3209-4e04-bb8a-f2ac85d5c07a

According to a survey conducted among headteachers at schools in England, approximately 83 percent of primary schools, and 94 percent of secondary schools provided, or planned to provide work for pupils via online learning platforms. Although live online lessons were the second most common way for schools to deliver education remotely, they were not as widely used in primary schools, with emailing, phoning or messaging being the second-most common type of provision.

Figures in this release are drawn from the Ofsted inspection judgement "The behaviour of learners - school level"/ "How well do pupils behave". This publication reports each eligible school's most recent judgement and therefore differs from Ofsted's published annual data, which shows inspections within a given academic year. This publication was previously titled: National Indicator 86, Secondary Schools judged as having Good or Outstanding Standards of Behaviour.

Source agency: Education

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: December 2010

This bulletin is a one off publication that looks at how pupils are distributed between schools. It reports on the period 2006/2007 but also includes time series data from 1997.

Source agency: Education

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: The Composition of Schools in England

This is a point dataset compiled using the Department for Educations Schools in England dataset and has been published by Esri UK. This dataset is updated monthly. This point dataset is reflective of the December 2014 update showing the open schools for this month.

The points were created using OS Open Data.

Following significant government support, 81.9% of secondary schools are now academies according to the government, with maintained schools increasingly converting. Both types remain under strict government guidelines, but academies can decide term dates, curriculums, subject choices and budget decisions. Despite several years of economic turmoil, government funding has remained strong because of the importance of maintaining and improving UK education standards. Secondary education revenue is expected to have grown at a compound annual rate of 1.4% to £66.1 billion over the five years through 2024-25, growing by 2.1% in 2024-25. The COVID-19 outbreak severely disrupted the day-to-day running of schools throughout 2020-21, with temporary closures forcing pupils to stay at home and learn online. The Educational Recovery Fund has supported educational catch-up, totalling around £5 billion in February 2022, preventing a significant drop in revenue during the COVID-19 outbreak. In cash terms, total funding for all state-funded schools totalled £60.7 billion in 2024-25 due to a £3.9 billion funding increase in 2024-25. Private school pupil numbers have marginally dipped, with the ISC recording a 0.1% decline in independent secondary school pupil numbers over the year through January 2024, with the cost-of-living crisis having squeezed some parents' purse strings. For the start of the 2024-25 academic year, private school enrolments were down, especially for new starters in their first year of secondary school, with the potenital for fee hikes if VAT is added in January 2025 looming. This could pose a threat to profit and place more pressure on state schools to open up available places. Secondary education revenue is projected to grow at a compound annual rate of 2% to £72.9 billion over the five years through 2029-30. The number of international students attending independent schools has not fallen with immigration policies, as many independent schools hold Student Visa Sponsors. With school costs still continuing to grow by 4% in 2024-25, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, school funding per pupil will remain stretched.

This dataset tracks annual distribution of students across grade levels in England School District and average distribution per school district in Arkansas

According to a survey conducted among headteachers at schools in England, approximately 83 percent of primary school headteachers, and 86 percent of secondary school headteachers advised that pupils' access to digital devices was the main barrier to effective use of remote learning technology.

Contains figures on class sizes in maintained primary and secondary schools in England.

Source agency: Education

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Pupil Characteristics and Class Sizes in Maintained Schools in England

In 2024 there were approximately 1,411 private or independent schools in the United Kingdom, compared with 1,374 in 2020.

In 2023/24, approximately 20.8 percent of all pupils at schools in England did not speak English as a first language, compared with 18 percent in 2015/16.